Can open only one visible window

[Moshe]

A few days after updating to El Cap, all of the sudden, when I click on a window, say a browser, it comes to the foreground, but all the other windows hide.



They are still there and I can click on any of them to open them, but when I do, the open window hides and the one I clicked on takes over the foreground.



When i go into Mission Control and look at all my open programs, I only see the one that is in the foreground. All the rest are not showing up at all.



I thought it might be in Single App mode so I opened Terminal and issued this command to take it out if it was. No avail.



defaults write com.apple.dock single-app -bool false; killall Dock


This does not seem to be Single App behavior anyway. I think there is something wrong in that Mission Control only sees the program in the foreground, and none of the programs open but hiding in the background.


Any ideas anyone?

 

[Cory Cooper]

Hello and welcome.

-Which model Mac?
-Maybe your mouse/trackpad buttons have been reprogrammed to access Mission Control instead of a normal click?
-You could have a sticking key - F11/F12 - that is causing that behavior?
-Have you tried turning off all of the Mission Control functions to see if the issue persists?

C

 

[Moshe]

Hello and welcome.

-Which model Mac?
-Maybe your mouse/trackpad buttons have been reprogrammed to access Mission Control instead of a normal click?
-You could have a sticking key - F11/F12 - that is causing that behavior?
-Have you tried turning off all of the Mission Control functions to see if the issue persists?

C

it was a third party application (tinker tool) the did that (actually, I did, but didn't remember..) thanks!

 

[Cory Cooper]

Ahhh...so, it's sorted then?

C

 

[Moshe]

Ahhh...so, it's sorted then?

C

right...